The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-03-10
The Southern States.

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where else in the United States, 8
md probably nowhere else in the '
world, and this because nowhere 8
slse are the conditions so favorable. S
The only movement in this coun- 8
Try that can be compared to it is the !
one that took place from 1880 to
1850, in what are the central and {
we're then the western states. The {
southern movement differs from
that one in that it is far more va
ried, including not only agricul-
ture, though this is not by any
means absent, but great numbers
and kinds of manufactures and
1t differs also in that
new country has not TO be settled
and wrested from the wilderness,
but there is solid basis of organ
ization, social, political and com
mercial, on which to build. Again.
the resources and methods of those
engaged in the southern movement
are of a far higher and more eff
cient sort than those of half cen
fury since. There is vast accu-
mutation of available capital ready |
for actual investment. A banking
system as nearly perfect as the
world has ever seen is ready to ia
cilitate all legitimate enterprises.
The currency, whatever may be
its future, is safe and uniform and
can not be vitiated or endangered
by the adventures Of spectators,
financial fanatics or swindlers, as
that of the last generation could be-
and often was. Communication of
all sorts, for passenger and freight,
and for exchanges, is rapid, exten
sive, safe, sure and,constantly grow
ing cheaper. The one thing COM
mon to both movements is the
American spirit of energy, self re
lance and indomitable courage. 1t
is not too much to say that enor-
nous as was the advantage to the
country from the western movement,
that made possible in the south
fairly ranks with it and involves
even greater future.
There are evidences in the letters
of our correspondent of unhealthy
speculation heresand there, which,
so far, has oftenest taken the forms
of booms in real property. These
are unavoidable, and will more or
less rapidly adjust themselves to
the conditions of fact. They are,
indeed, evidences Of real prospect
ty, for whatever exageeration
there is in the hopes that incite
them, there is a certain solid ba-
sis. Advances of 100 per cent. or
800 per cent. in the price of land in
few weeks or months, are, of
course, the consequence of the
gam bling spirit, and the active
dealing in Options on :land, such
as he describes in Chattanooga, is
an aggressive form Of gambling
But the fever that that produces
symptoms ofswill burn out and suffi
cient sustained confidence, energy
and industry will remain. The rap
id advances in land prices is but
the index of the general feeling as
to the industrial and commercial
resources involved in the land, and
these are real and will ultimately
have their Legitimate effect. So far
as can now be ascertained, a very
large part of the new enterprises of
the sonth are maintained by genu-
inc capital, which will necessarily
be steadily increased as profitable
employment for it is disclosed. 1t
is almost impossible to fix a limit to
the general resources of the coun.-
try as this process. which is cumu-
lative, goes on. In one more gen
Grafton, within the time of men now
actively engaged in the south, it is
safe to say that that region will con.
tribute to the material we'll being
of the nation more than its entire
estimated value before the rebel
lion.
The moral and social changes
involved are even more importan
than the material changes. The
war has made them possible. 1,
i, destroyed slavery; it welded the
;, states into a homogeneous union
it opened the south to the north
and made, after q surprisingly
1 short time, the north welcome il
d the south, and what is of the great
e est immediate value, it restored tn,
e south to itself. With the disap
e pesrance of slavery the stigma at
tached to labor was gradually re
e moved. With the new industrie:
/. that brought the negro and tn,
t white man side by side, working a
the same task, receiving the sam,
wages, with the same hopes ant
opportunities, there begins the per-
e manent and complete solution o
e all that was serious in the rae
t problem. Thus, again, freedom 70
n which fathers fought, for which tn
war of the union was waged, ant
d which has become as precious t.
= the defeated party as to victors
t justities itself We are not rasl
- enough to think that the millennium
/ is da|ning on the south, there will
J be no reverses, drawbacks, disap
# pointments in that region, in al
Q departments of life. But whateve
= is in store for it is common to tn
whole country; its opportunitie:
and Its risks are national, and il
the net outcome of progress AM
prosperity that is perfectly certain
= the whole country must participate
t 1t was only a few years ago tba
b the southern question involves
/, for great party in the nortl
I, the inquiry how evils there coult
: be corrected by northern action
a To day there is no southern ques
r. ton in politics, and the only on
the north is really interested in i
. how to get Its share in the gain
that are to be made there.
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